Incredible Sulk is reborn as golf’s laughing cavalier

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IT IS a cherished and perhaps a particularly female belief that when a man gets knocked over in the gladiatorial arena of love and marriage, he is out for good. But this is not always so. Sometimes he gets up again. And sometimes, the spiritual fuse-blow seems to do him good. A reassessment, a personal relaunch, even a new youthfulness: all these things have happened to Colin Montgomerie after a divorce that was ugly even by the standards of that dread word.

When a sportsman goes through such terrible times, the state of his soul seems to be almost a